In those cases you are making money using your mind and less about using your remodeling muscle -- that's a much easier lifestyle.

And if you do seek to work for such contractors, even as a lowly laborer, fetch-n-carry grunt, earth digger with a shovel; then please start working out in a gym so you have the muscle mass & stamina to give an honest day's work to you employer, & you don't end up getting fired.

You build your deal finding/negotiating muscles and you meet a lot of people. 

A lot of people think they can do this for 300k, but that's not even close with the current spasm for multi-family properties in this market.

This incentivizes me to flex my creative muscles to produce quality and cheap work so I can maximize my return on the labor.I’ll probably do more of these types of deals in the future, personally.

Build credit, just like you are building muscle in the gym. 

There's zero benefit here, they just trying to muscle you and control the situation.Plus a long term lease doesn't even offer you anything in terms of security, they can break it with little consequence.

Also, there could be side effects, including sore arm, low fever, fatigue, and muscle aches — typical side effects for all vaccines.

If you are hungry, teachable and have hustle muscle you just might connect with someone willing to take you under their wing and mentor you.

I'm from Chattanooga TN, but recently moved to the Muscle Shoals area of Alabama.First taste of REI was actually from Lance Edwards dollar book for kindle called "Big Money in Small Apartments".I had a book by Scott Trench called "Set For Life" recommended by a friend in the very beginning which opened the Rabbit Hole I've now fallen into.Currently I'm reading Richest Man In Babylon, Common Sense Investing, and Bigger Pockets Beginners Guide to REI.Great stuff, really excited to hear from people in here and hope to make some solid connections.I have made the noob mistake of talking to Realtors rather than sellers about houses, not knowing what I was doing, but those mistakes have led me to where I am today: checking out my first home, as a future investment.